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If you like baking with sweeteners other than sugar and enjoy scones, you will love today’s recipe. It’s for rich, buttery, scones sweetened with maple syrup and loaded with pecans and dried fruit (or in this case, chocolate chips). The recipe is from a new cookbook called Modern Maple, written by Teresa Marrone and published [...]
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Last night while re-reading Dreena Burton’s Vive le Vegan!, I came across a recipe called Squirrely Scones. I’ve passed it up dozens of times and don’t know why, considering the ingredients are things we keep around the house and that we love scones. So this morning, thinking I’d surprise Fuzz with some scones (she’s going [...]
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Fuzz and I made these in an attempt to use up some oranges we bought earlier in the week. And while we typically don’t love orange flavor in bread nor honey flavor in large amounts, the two flavors balanced each other out and tasted great. What was really special was the texture. Unlike heavy, biscuit-like [...]
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I hope everyone had a happy holiday! Ours was fun, but different. I didn’t cook and that felt weird, but being the bartender was fun and I’m proud to have introduced the family to “Whipped Cream Vodka” and Fulton’s Pumpkin Cream Liqueur. Speaking of which, there was no pumpkin pie, just buttermilk pie, and …
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This week I purchased a jar of Biscoff, a spread made with the popular Belgium spice cookies. If that sounds strange to you, you’re in good company. But if you see it at your local Central Market or Wal*Mart (or the grocery store in your area that likes to give shelf space to new and [...]
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Good news for those of you who like the flavor of liquid coffee creamers but hate thinking about what’s in it. Coffee Mate just rolled out a new line of creamer called Natural Bliss made with only four ingredients: milk, cream, sugar and flavoring. As someone who likes experimenting with flavored creamers, I’m very happy [...]
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Cinnascones were inspired by a visit yesterday from my friends Cecilia and Jeff. After a very enjoyable baking session, I did what I always do with guests interested in the subject, I took them over to my book shelf and started recommending cookbooks. One in particular was the Alice’s Tea Cup Cookbook, …
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When it comes to scones and biscuits, self-rising flour is a real time saver. Or at least I perceive it as such since it lets me skip searching for the baking powder and salt, which seem to move about the pantry. Plus something about self-rising flour, maybe the protein content or the type of wheat, [...]
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